EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House on August 26, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/File

The Environmental Protection Agency has altered and removed information from its website that connected climate change to the burning of fossil fuels.

The changes come as the Trump administration tries to supercharge US oil and gas production and resurrect the coal industry. Now, the EPA’s webpage detailing the ‘causes of climate change’ no longer lists human activities such as burning oil, gas and coal — the key drivers of a warming climate since the industrial revolution.

In some cases, the agency has left information that implies the existence of human-caused climate change, while removing direct references to that fact. Other EPA webpages, includin

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